America’s National Parks Podcast
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The Alamo is certainly San Antonio’s most famous landmark, perhaps even the most famous building in Texas, because of its pivotal role in the 1836 Texas Revolution. But the Alamo was built over a century prior as Mission San Antonio de Valero, by Spanish settlers on the banks of the San Antonio River. Beginning in 1690, Spanish friars established missions in what is now East Texas as a buffer against the threat of French incursion into Spanish territory from Louisiana. The Alamo is a Texas state historic site, but nearby, four sister missions, all still working Catholic churches, are protected by the National Park Service as the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
This episode follows four people connected to the Missions: a stonemason, a historian, a descendant, and a former church administrator. Their stories comprise Michael Nye's "Four Voices" exhibit on display at Mission Concepción.
Community Science in National Parks
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Restoring the Everglades
100.Years of Hot Springs, New Filming Rules | National Park News
Scandal and Special People of Effigy Mounds
100 Years at Mount Rainier
Digging Up Dinosaurs
Mask Mandate, Commercial Filming Permits Struck Down | National Park News
Wolves of Isle Royale
Little American Island
St. Croix Heroes and Mussels
The Steel Driving Man
Our 63rd Park | National Park News
Surviving Winter in the National Parks
Medgar Evers
Humpbacks
The Obelisk from Nowhere, Park Projects Funded, $270 Million Lawsuit | News from the Parks
Pipestone
Wild Horses
Ring, Grandfather, Ring
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